re: Driving with hazard lights on.

If torrential rain is coming down all drivers need to slow the frick down. Reaction times are down to a fraction of a second at interstate speeds. Doesn't seem to slow down the truck nuts baws.

Please PLEASE put your hazards on if you are driving slowly in the right lane and if there is very poor visibility.

quote:

---

No it doesn't that's the same language as in the Hazard Lighit statute in the thread. It's legal. AAA has it wrong.

---

quote:

---

flashing lights are prohibited except on authorized emergency vehicles, school buses, or on any vehicle as a means of indicating a right or left turn, or the presence of a vehicular traffic hazard requiring unusual care in approaching, overtaking or passing.

---

Driving in the rain does not qualify for any of that.

Just have your lights on, the tail lights are enough, the flashing lights are distracting and can be dangerous if the person with flashing lights is changing lanes.

quote:

---

by LSUTigersVCURams

---

Lol you're dumb

quote:

---

You had a case where a judge ruled that driving with hazard lights on is illegal?

---

I had case that I had to settle because my insured's dumbass employee was driving with her hazards on because she was running out of gas (moron) and she went from being stopped in a lane to merging to the right with the hazard lights blinking and was side swiped.

quote:

---

Driving in the rain does not qualify for any of that.

---

Has nothing to do with rain per se. It's about driving slow on the highway for any reason. What if you're on a spare? What if you're having car trouble? By the way, I don't put the hazards on personally. I just don't have a problem with it.

I had an old ford ranger and the gas pedal bracket broke on me in BR one night and the only way I could get it to work was to pull the pedal towards me... the truck was a standard so you can see there was gonna be some complications. I could only get up to 35 mph so I got in the slow lane on airline and put my hazard lights on to warn other drivers. When I got to Prairieville, a state trooper pulled me over. I told him the problem and he informed me it is against the law to drive with hazard lights on and it's for emergencies only and my situation was not an emergency. He didn't give me a ticket but he did make me pull over and call to get a trailer to load it up in. I used to be uniformed as well.

quote:

---

used to be uniformed as well

---

Maybe the Trooper was wrong, just like AAA is wrong and LSUVCAWHATEVER is right.

quote:

---

Please explain why

---

At a minimum, it makes it difficult for approaching vehicles to tell if you've got a turn signal on and/or brake lights. It is also generally reserved for vehicles pulled over on the side of the road, so in low visibility situations, it only adds to the confusion by making it difficult to tell whether or not a vehicle is on the side of the road or in a travel lane.

Whatever you gain from additional visibility you lose and then some with added confusion and the inability to communicate your intentions to approaching drivers.

quote:

---

Well if a state trooper said that then I stand corrected.

---

It is actually open to interpretation in LA.

quote:

---

Is it true that it’s illegal to use you car’s hazard lights while the car is moving, that you can only use them if the car’s parked at the roadside?

No, said state police Sgt. James Anderson.

He cited two relevant statutes:

R.S. 32:327: “Flashing lights are prohibited except on authorized emergency vehicles, school buses, or on any vehicle as a means of indicating a right or left turn, or the presence of a vehicular traffic hazard requiring unusual care in approaching, overtaking or passing.”

R.S. 32:300.3: “No person shall operate a vehicle in a funeral procession unless the headlights of such vehicle are lighted and its emergency lights are flashing.”
“Most people associate flashing hazard lights with vehicles that have broken down along the roadside or have been involved in a crash,” Anderson wrote in an email.
“There are, however, times when the use of hazard lights while moving would be appropriate under the law.

“These include, but are not limited to, driving significantly slower than other traffic (i.e., driving with a compact spare tire with a maximum rated speed of 50 mph, driving with an oversize load) or upon encountering stopped traffic on the interstate and using hazard lights to maximize your vehicle’s visibility so that you aren’t struck from behind.”

---

LINK

My opinion on the subject has nothing to do with whether or not it is illegal and everything to do with the believe that it is a net negative in a situation such as low visibility.